Re: Re: Ear infection, Pain meds!

August 9, 2006

Sara,

I would go to your doctor and ask them to refer you to someone who make earplug

molds. My daughter had them made for when she had tubes in her ears. They are

wonderful and keep the water out. My insurance company did cover them because I

got it in writing from my doctor.

As for preventative, I really don't know. Does he have continual fluid behind

his ears? If so, tubes may be in the forecast. Garlic is a natural AB so I

don't know if you would want to use it all the time. I think the best

preventative is to plug up the ears before going in the water.

Charlene

!

Charlene,

Thank you! Do you think I can use that as a preventive method as

well, Garlic and olive oil, beacuse one of his only joys in life is

swmming but we have to deal with ear infection once a month. He has

only been SCD since July 4h of this year, so I know his immune system

has ways to go.....Also anyone one else with any suggestions about

preventive ways. He's six with sever Austism.

Thanx,

Sara

>

> For ear infections olive oil with crushed garlic. Drop into ear 4x

a day. At night cut a garlic clove a little larger than the ear

canal, place in tissue and lay in bad ear. Let the child fall asleep

with this in. If it falls out during the night, oh well. It works

wonders if you can catch the infection quick.

>

> Charlene

> UC 8 years

> SCD almost 6 years

>

> Does anyone know what to use for pain. My son gets ear infections

very

> frequently, I'm using ear drops right now and gave him a dose of

Motrin

> but I know that's bot scD legal. Any help would be greatly

appreciated.

> Both for pain meds and antibiotics.

>

> Thanx in advance!

> Sara

>

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August 10, 2006

If you don't already use one, I'd highly recommend a good quality fish oil

supplement. My 3 yr. old was sick from 7 mths. until two months before his

3rd birthday. The illnesses would come around every 4 to 6 weeks. He

hasn't had even a niffle once I started giving him a fish oil supplement,

and the cold that he had when I started the supplement went away in two

days. Nortic Naturals makes a good products as does Kirkman.

Meleah

scd 3 mth.

iel 3yrs., asd

Ethan 5 yrs., Mark 1yr., both healthy

Re: Ear infection, Pain meds!

> Charlene,

>

> Thank you! Do you think I can use that as a preventive method as

> well, Garlic and olive oil, beacuse one of his only joys in life is

> swmming but we have to deal with ear infection once a month. He has

> only been SCD since July 4h of this year, so I know his immune system

> has ways to go.....Also anyone one else with any suggestions about

> preventive ways. He's six with sever Austism.

>

> Thanx,

> Sara

>

>>

>> For ear infections olive oil with crushed garlic. Drop into ear 4x

> a day. At night cut a garlic clove a little larger than the ear

> canal, place in tissue and lay in bad ear. Let the child fall asleep

> with this in. If it falls out during the night, oh well. It works

> wonders if you can catch the infection quick.

>>

>> Charlene

>> UC 8 years

>> SCD almost 6 years

>>

>> Does anyone know what to use for pain. My son gets ear infections

> very

>> frequently, I'm using ear drops right now and gave him a dose of

> Motrin

>> but I know that's bot scD legal. Any help would be greatly

> appreciated.

>> Both for pain meds and antibiotics.

>>

>> Thanx in advance!

>> Sara

>>

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August 10, 2006

I will agree with that some sort of food intolerance could be the

cause. I know a family in which the son has the ear problems in relation to

tomatos. He is a perfectly healthy child, and traditional allergy testing

did not show any problems with tomatos. It took a cyropractor to do a

special muscle testing thing to figure it out.

Meleah

Re: Ear infection, Pain meds!

> For my son, we had to stop all dairy (except breastmilk). Within

> three days of going casein-free, the chronic ear infections (three

> months straight) stopped and have not returned. That was 3 months ago.

>

> mom to , 14 mths (ASD)

> SCD 1 wk

>

>>

>> Charlene,

>>

>> Thank you! Do you think I can use that as a preventive method as

>> well, Garlic and olive oil, beacuse one of his only joys in life is

>> swmming but we have to deal with ear infection once a month. He has

>> only been SCD since July 4h of this year, so I know his immune system

>> has ways to go.....Also anyone one else with any suggestions about

>> preventive ways. He's six with sever Austism.

>>

>> Thanx,

>> Sara

>>

>

> For information on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, please read the book

> _Breaking the Vicious Cycle_ by Elaine Gottschall and read the following

> websites:

> http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info

> and

> http://www.pecanbread.com

>

August 10, 2006

I have used that one, and my " dan " doctor was OK with it. I will give you a

trip. I was giving iel the recommended dose on the bottle of 1/2 tsp.

She had me up it to 1 tsp, and then watch. She said that he could go up to

as much as 2 tsp. I would know if he was consuming too much because his

stools would be a little oily. She knew he needed more because he had

little bumps(like chicken or goose flesh) on the backs of his upper arms. I

have also read that if you have dry skin, dry hair, ect. that you probably

need to up the amount of fish oil. So while I'm not a doctor, I'm just

saying that you shouldn't be worried about increasing the dosage for your

son. We didn't start out using Kirkman's cod liver oil. We were using

another brand that has more EPA and DHA per serving, and their serving size

was 1 tsp. So, you might want to bump it up to 1 tsp., and see if it helps.

I hope it does. I am a firm believer in the fish oil now.

Meleah

Re: Ear infection, Pain meds!

> Meleah,

> I started Cod liver oil from Kirkman about 2 weeks ago. Is that a

> good one for supplement?

>

>> >>

>> >> For ear infections olive oil with crushed garlic. Drop into ear

> 4x

>> > a day. At night cut a garlic clove a little larger than the ear

>> > canal, place in tissue and lay in bad ear. Let the child fall

> asleep

>> > with this in. If it falls out during the night, oh well. It works

>> > wonders if you can catch the infection quick.

>> >>

>> >> Charlene

>> >> UC 8 years

>> >> SCD almost 6 years

>> >>

>> >> Does anyone know what to use for pain. My son gets ear

> infections

>> > very

>> >> frequently, I'm using ear drops right now and gave him a dose

> of

>> > Motrin

>> >> but I know that's bot scD legal. Any help would be greatly

>> > appreciated.

>> >> Both for pain meds and antibiotics.

>> >>

>> >> Thanx in advance!

>> >> Sara

>> >>

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August 10, 2006